Free Market Institute

Research Workshop

The Free Market Institute (FMI) Research Workshop exposes graduate students, faculty,
staff and other university colleagues to working research related to free market economics
and other topics of interest. It is a "workshop" for work in progress that is not
yet under consideration by scholarly journals. FMI faculty, research staff and graduate students, other Texas Tech University faculty members and visiting scholars
deliver seminar presentations.

Spring 2015

January 30 — Protection and the Income Tax Amendment: Wall Street's Reaction to the Tariff Debate
of 1909 — Phillip Magness, Academic Program Director, Institute for Humane Studies at George
Mason University

February 13 — Institutional Quality and Democratic Transitions —Christopher Boudreaux, Assistant Professor of Economics at Texas A&M International
University

February 27 — Do Universities Foster Entrepreneurship and Innovation? Evidence from Academic Incubators — Peter Klein, Professor of Applied Social Sciences at University of Missouri-Columbia

March 11 — Public Policy from the Bottom Up — Peter Boettke, University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason
University

March 27 — Explaining the Worldwide Decline in Military Conscription: 1970-2010 — Joshua Hall, Associate Professor of Economics at West Virginia University